"Living Tenderly" and "The Spider"

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"Living Tenderly" and "The Spider"

Last updated over 1 year ago

11 questions

Question 1

"Living Tenderly" is a riddle poem. Who is the speaker?

Question 2

What does the "pattern of smooth seams" refer to?

Question 3

What does the title of the poem suggest about the topic or speaker of the poem?

Question 4

Does the first line contain a metaphor or simile?

metaphor

simile

Question 5

What is the contradiction in line 5 of this poem?

Question 6

In what line of the poem is personification used? What is being personified?

Question 7

In "The Spider" what figurative language is used in line 1?

Question 8

Although the word web is not used in this poem, it is clear that the poem is figuratively describing the spider spinning a web. What are the "silken blouse," the "lacework," and the "dwelling house" referred to in the first stanza?

Question 9

What is the "staircase" in line 5?

Question 10

10.

What simile is used in lines 15-16? What is being compared?

Question 11

11.

In the final lines, the spider is compared to a scientist and to the mathematician, Euclid. What is the basis or reason for this comparisons? (Hint: How is a spider like a scientist? How is a spider like Euclid?)

Question 1

"Living Tenderly" is a riddle poem. Who is the speaker?

Question 2

What does the "pattern of smooth seams" refer to?

Question 3

What does the title of the poem suggest about the topic or speaker of the poem?

Question 4

Does the first line contain a metaphor or simile?

metaphor

simile

Question 5

What is the contradiction in line 5 of this poem?

Question 6

In what line of the poem is personification used? What is being personified?

Question 7

In "The Spider" what figurative language is used in line 1?

Question 8

Although the word web is not used in this poem, it is clear that the poem is figuratively describing the spider spinning a web. What are the "silken blouse," the "lacework," and the "dwelling house" referred to in the first stanza?

Question 9

What is the "staircase" in line 5?

Question 10

10.

What simile is used in lines 15-16? What is being compared?

Question 11

11.

In the final lines, the spider is compared to a scientist and to the mathematician, Euclid. What is the basis or reason for this comparisons? (Hint: How is a spider like a scientist? How is a spider like Euclid?)